People hypnotized into having sex with chairs

[Benjamin Haines]

Title says it all:

youtube.com/watch?v=2e9eaY1c7i0

[The Curmudgeon]

A lot of people (especially on Youtube, I see) write hypnosis off as fake, and that people just go along with what the hypnotist is saying, to either go along with the act or so as not to be signalled out on stage.

I went up on stage once at a hypnotist show, and for the whole time I was up there I kept thinking "this isn't working, oh shit, this isn't working.." while he told us to rub our hands together and imagine they were stuck together with glue. Some people on stage had their hands stuck together like they were joined at the seams, and I went along with it. Hey, I was about 16 at the time.

Anyway, I was up there for about ten minutes when he suddenly said that we were leaves falling from a tree, and suddenly in my mind I felt like my head was going to spin from my neck. I don't know if I was spinning myself (my eyes were shut), but all I remember is the room spinning wildly around me and I almost fell off the stage. The hypnotist ran up to me, checked I was OK, and said it would be better if I sat back down.

So consider me a "believer."

[Benjamin Haines]

The thing about hypnosis is that it only works if you give yourself into it, because a hypnotist can't hypnotize someone who isn't willing to go along with the process. In your case, Curmudgeon, you started off thinking it wouldn't work, and so it wasn't. But after about ten minutes of going along with it anyway, you had subconsciously submitted your mind to the will of the hypnotist. That's the key to the whole thing, is that it's all a mental thing for the person being hypnotized. Had you gone up on that stage with the mindset of "I can't be hypnotized" and just refused to do anything the hypnotist said from the get-go, then it wouldn't have worked. It's never a matter of a hypnotist taking over a subject's mind, it's about them submitting their minds. The talent of hypnotists lies in their ability to lull their subjects into giving over their minds without them realizing it.

[InvisibleWolfMan]

In high school, for the last 2 years of it anyways, there was a hypnotist for our "After Prom" party. Each time he did the "test" where he'd see who could be subjected to being hypnotized, I failed both times. And it wasn't because I didn't believe, I probably believed more than anyone and yet the hypnotist failed to catch me under any spell.

I just think that sometimes our minds can be stronger or weaker depending on the situation. I guess mine is stronger to subliminal messages and weaker to chocolate.

And sex.